Ryan Reynolds Talks the Deadpool Movie's Difficulties and How It Addresses Wolverine

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"Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine."

By Scott Collura

What's up with the Deadpool movie? Who knows. Last we heard back in October, director Tim Miller and scripters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had turned in their screenplay to the studio. But there's no go date and Fox has been quiet on the project since then.

Ryan Reynolds, who has long been attached to play the title character, recently guested on Empire Magazine's podcast where he discussed the project… though he doesn't sound very optimistic about it getting made at this point.

"It’s so, so far into the R-rated zone… it’s a nearly NC-17 world and I just don’t know if the studio would ever risk their reputation doing it," says Reynolds, who also compares the tone of the script to Zombieland. "We’ve been developing it and we would never wanna do it unless you could [do] it that R-rated way, so… They wrote it and they developed it as well and, you know, it’s sitting there. You could do it for a pittance compared to the modern sort of epic scale superhero movies, but it’s about a guy who knows he’s in a movie and knows he’s in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent. And that’s tough to get by a studio."

Interestingly, Reynolds also says that the current version of the script does speak to Deadpool's (and Reynolds') sort of out-of-character appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

"In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine -- though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in Wolverine," he says. "Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that."